You work as an Incident handler in Mariotrixt.Inc. You have followed the Incident handling process to handle the events and incidents. You identify Denial of Service attack (DOS) from a network…

Recovery is a later phase that restores systems to normal operation after the threat has been eradicated - it cannot occur before Containment and Eradication.

After identifying a DoS attack (Identification phase), the next step in the incident handling process is Containment, which involves isolating affected systems, blocking malicious traffic, or segmenting the network to prevent the attack from spreading further to other internal systems.

Preparation is the first phase of incident handling where policies, tools, and procedures are established before any incident occurs - it is not a response action taken after identification.

Identification is the phase that was just completed when the DoS attack was recognized - repeating it is not the correct next step in the process.